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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novel is the play The Heiress based on?
(a) Washington Square.
(b) The Sun Also Rises.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) The Great Gatsby.

2. What childhood fictional character does Joan describe as "a total imperialist" in the panel from page 80?
(a) Mickey Mouse.
(b) Jiminy Cricket.
(c) Christopher Robin.
(d) Alice.

3. What author had Bruce Bechdel become immersed in the year before he died?
(a) Marcel Proust.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

4. What color did the author's father fill in the gypsy caravan with in the coloring book in Chapter 5?
(a) Green.
(b) Pink.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

5. Who is the 77-year-old poet who is referenced as a lesbian in the panel on page 74?
(a) Elsa Gidlow.
(b) Jennifer Roberts.
(c) Christine Roth.
(d) Marie Antony.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Alison Bechdel inform her parents that she was gay?

2. How long before her father's death did Bechdel come out to her parents as gay?

3. Where is the home where Alison Bechdel grew up?

4. In what year did Bruce Bechdel die?

5. The author says of her father in Chapter 1, "He used his skillful artifice not to make things, but to make things appear to be" what?

(see the answer key)

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